Fri, 28 Apr 2017 09:36:19 +0000 …as Kenyan company wins $3.4m Govt book procurement By SANDRA MACHIMA Zambian publishers have been angered by the award of yet another textbook tender worth US$3, 457,000 to a newly registered foreign company. Grey Matter which is believed to be Kenya, but registered in Zambia has been awarded 23 of the 35 books that were floated recently. Only one Zambian publishing company Mwajionera has been awarded one bid. But Zambian publishers have observed that the Ministry of General Education last year awarded a Ugandan company the bulk of books tendered amid controversy and outcry. Most of the books have been rejected because they were unsuitable. They feel that Government must intervene because it had a duty to nurture and encourage local publishing rather than preside over an environment where more Zambian publishers went under due to lack of business which was going to foreign companies. Now MK Publishers, […]
